Wednesday morning stuff

[yendi]

1. So did anyone not mentally channel Mark Slackmeyer when reading about the Libby decision? I know that kradical (over here) and tnh (over at Making Light) both did so explicitly, but Mark's rant was definitely going through my head the second I saw the report on CNN.com.

2. Meanwhile, there's the whole fired prosecutors scandal. Because heaven forbid the Republicans put up with any honest and ethical folks in their administration.

3. And even more annoying than anything Bush has done, our Tivo decided to stop recording 9PM shows House and Ace of Cakes at the zero-minute mark last night. What the fuck? Fortunately, the former gets rerun on USA next week, and the latter was a repeat anyway. But this had better be a fluke.

4, On the plus side, Kitchen Confidential is coming to DVD! Yay!

5. slipjig summarizes this past weekend quite nicely.

6. The in-laws get into town tomorrow, and Elayna's birthday party is this weekend. So if you thought things were insane last weekend, you ain't seen nothing yet (as folks named Bachman and Turner might say).

7. Finally, Rest in Peace, Steve Rogers. For what it's worth, the entire Marvel Universe has sucked collective ass for the last few years*, so you're probably better off in the afterlife hanging out with Black Goliath, Captain Stacy, and anyone else who might still be dead. If it's any comfort, no one believes you'll actually stay dead.

* Excluding those parts written by Peter David and Warren Ellis. And no, the DCU hasn't sucked any less, once you account for Shadowpact and LSH.

Comments

[kradical.livejournal.com]

Our DVR occasionally will just hiccup and not record something, or stop recording it after a minute. It happens sufficiently rarely that I can't get too worked up about it. Just file it under shit happening and move on....

[yendi]

I'm just happy that it happened with shows that I could catch another time and that weren't in the middle of massive storylines. If I'd lost Heroes like that, I'd be so damned pissed.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

It did happen with Heroes once -- actually, that one was my fault, I forgot to set the DVR for it -- and I just bought the episode on iTunes for a buck the next day. *grin*

[yendi]

*nod* I'd done that in the past with Lost episodes (back when I cared more about it).

[photognome.livejournal.com]

I refuse to read anything to do with the Civil War storyline. I remember a distant time when DC and Marvel were able to come out with decent stories and didnt have to rely on rebooting the universe or killing off half the characters
everytime they ran out of ideas.

p.s. Agreed on Peter and Warren. I'd also add Garth in there.

[yendi]

True, but I'm pretty sure that his Punisher Max series isn't officially in the MU, so he's off the hook.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

[yendi]

Bingo!

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Um... Spoilers? I was planning on heading down to pick up the last of Civil War and my latest Marvel fix this weekend.

[yendi]

Sorry about that. When it gets on the front page of The Daily News (including their website) and gets reported on CNN.com (who, admittedly, only call it a "shocking event" on their front page), I take the fact that it's been spoiled as a given (somewhat like Superman's death fifteen years back, or Shannon's death on Lost last year). I honestly hadn't thought that it hadn't been spoiled everywhere.

[amokk]

My god, that was 15 years ago? Fuck I feel old.

[yendi]

FWIW, I think I exaggerated, and it was only fourteen years back. :-)

[amokk]

...

Oh that makes me feel so much better, old man!

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

No worries. I just saw it on the front page of Yahoo, so you only accelerated my spoiler experience by about three hours.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Ace of Cakes rocks, but not as much as Dinner: Impossible.

I watch Food Network for Iron Chef America, Good Eats, Dinner: Impossible and Ace of Cakes.

Probably in that order.

Best part of Iron Chef America. The Ted and Jeffrey judgefights. Classic.

What?!?!?!

[yendi]

I watch ICA on occasion, but my season passes are for Good Eats, Ace of Cakes, Sugar Rush, and Ham on the Street. I've never seen Dinner: Impossible, but I might check it out.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Dinner Imp is well worth watching.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Ted and Jeffrey have some kind of secret love affair going on. They fight like they're married. :)

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

My wife and I say that all the time.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

#7 Can you say LMD?

[yendi]

But they used that cop-out with the death of Nick Fury. Surely they won't repeat it?

/sarcasm.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I believe the quote is,"Who hasn't been replaced by a LMD, once or twice?"

[yendi]

Somewhere out there, there's a massive gathering of all the LMDs, clones, Doombots, alternate Kangs, and other duplicates of the Marvel Universe.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

*Snicker*

Oh, crap, now I have to write that.

-goes to block out time this weekend

[hookncrook.livejournal.com]

On a totally unrelated note--could you review the horror movie Burnt Offerings?

[yendi]

Alas, I don't have a copy of it, but if I see it on TV, it's one of many on my list.

[ex-bookkeep.livejournal.com]

What is it that you don't like about current comics?

I've been enjoying Astonishing X-Men and I even liked Civil War. On the DC side, I'm enjoying Green Lantern and the first issue of the new Brave and the Bold was a hoot.

[yendi]

In fairness, I completely forgot Joss's run on Astonishing.

photognome's post above sums up many of my problems, but I feel that Civil War and Infinite Crisis are bloated, money-grubbing pieces of crap that force folks to buy books they've got no interest in to attempt to follow the events affecting their favorite characters. They spend so much time trying to be "events" that they simply fail to be good stories.

[gutman.livejournal.com]

Slipjig entry is protected humph.

[yendi]

Ack! Sorry about that.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Have you checked the recording history on the TiVo to see why they didn't record?

[yendi]

The recording history section recognizes them as having been recorded and then deleted (which is technically correct).

[phantom_wolfboy]

Why am I picturing the "death" of the man currently known as U.S. Agent? Oh yes, because that was the last time a man in a Captain America uniform was "shot" by a "sniper".

Honestly, I'd rather he were dead. But I don't believe it for a moment.

[yendi]

Maybe it's an LMD of USAgent!